Did you know that the US saw an outbreak of monkeypox in six states in 2003? Bet not. Time to start keeping track of these things before the CDC (et.al.) try to rewrite history (again). Also: spring isn’t over yet, and in the face of looming illnesses foretold and potentially unleashed on a suspicious populous there is no time like the present to plant those medicinal herbs! Before there was Big Pharma, there was God’s flora.